The Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) has launched a new website, MassHealthProject.org, for its MassHealth Monitoring Project. The purpose of the project is to monitor MassHealth redeterminations and provide MassHealth beneficiaries and their advocates with the tools and resources to maintain their MassHealth coverage or successfully transition to other affordable coverage.

Why now? For the last three years special protections have been in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent people enrolled in Medicaid from losing coverage. Those special protections have now ended and state Medicaid programs throughout the US have a 12-month “unwinding period” to return to normal operations. National data compiled from other states is already showing a large number of people losing coverage not because they are no longer eligible for Medicaid, but because they have not been able to successfully navigate the redetermination process.

In Massachusetts, MassHealth will be redetermining the eligibility of its 2.4 million members during its unwinding period from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024.

The goal of this website and the monitoring project is to help MassHealth beneficiaries understand their rights during the redetermination process and how to maintain their coverage. It will provide tools to help advocates identify when a MassHealth termination is erroneous and what they can do to help their clients regain coverage. We are also encouraging members and advocates to use the website to share their experiences on the ground so MLRI can monitor issues that are standing in the way of successful redeterminations and raise them with state officials in order to find a solution.